A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the U.S. government to ban several hack-for-hire firms — companies that carry out cyberattacks on behalf of paying clients. The lawmakers accuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on their activities. Democratic senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sheldon Whitehouse…
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Jimmy Kimmel has been on vacation since mid-June, which means there was a lot to catch up on during his return to late night. “Donald Trump and I have one thing in common,” the host says in the monologue above. “We both accomplished nothing all summer long.” Kimmel goes on to talk through some of…
The Instagram post, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola player from Chongqing, China, a lover of science fiction, and an aspiring member of the US Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. She’s exacting and intense, with sky-high standards. And late last spring, just after her…
Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones. Over and over again, they heard the same thing from fusion companies: “We would ideally buy many of the components to make our our control system,…
China’s humanoid robots have gone from dancing for crowds to training for a far more serious job: fighting alongside soldiers. The shift became clearer after China’s World Humanoid Robot Games last month, where robots ran, boxed and danced. Two days later, the People’s Liberation Army’s official newspaper, PLA Daily, urged researchers to speed up the…
Can you see anything in the sky tonight? The Moon is approaching the New Moon phase, so only a small sliver of light should be visible. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Wednesday, Sept. 9, NASA’s Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in Waning Crescent phase, with 4% of its surface…
As they say, the only things you can’t escape in life are death and taxes. Doing your own taxes has only gotten easier over the years but it’s still plenty confusing, especially with both federal and state rules and rates always in flux. To help you figure out this confusing process, I’ve written a guide…
UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced a $20 million B extension round on Wednesday, bringing its lifetime total raised amount to $128 million. The company’s last major raise was four years ago, its co-founder and CEO Theo Saville told TechCrunch. Saville launched CloudNC in 2015 with Chris Emery, now the company’s chief science officer, and…
Anthropic has reportedly ended talks to acquire Decart AI for approximately $6 billion after conducting due diligence on the AI startup, according to Bloomberg. The deal would have been Anthropic’s largest acquisition to date and could have helped it reduce the cost of training and running AI models through Decart’s chip optimization technology. That could…
